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Robert Riches <
spamtrap42@jacob21819.net> writes:
> Richard Kettlewell <
invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>> Robert Riches <
spamtrap42@jacob21819.net> writes:
>>> Why is there a need to do anything? X works just fine. What
>>> happened to the motto of not fixing something if it`s not broken?
>>> Why is there such a mad rush to re-invent things but do so more
>>> poorly than the original, working solution?
>>
>> ?Why? is covered in the FAQ.
>>
>>
https://wayland.freedesktop.org/faq.html
>
> Yes, and those who have chosen to pathetically re-implement ntpd
> for systemd (throwing out everything that makes ntpd a superior
> solution) have similar justifications for their needless efforts.
>
> There`s a quote, something to the effect that those who do not
> understand Unix will be condemned to re-implement it--poorly.
> The same seems appropriate when describing systemd`s poor
> imitation of ntpd and Wayland.
Wayland was largely created by X11 developers. They know a lot more
about it than you.
>>>>> However, the real beauty of X`s network transparency is not in `ssh
>>>>> -X`, it is in putting a hostname or IP address in the value of
>>>>> $DISPLAY so that X clients can access X display servers wherever
>>>>> they may be.
>>
>> That has very limited usefulness today due to its unacceptably poor
>> security.
>
> Yes, but in those cases where it is useful (far inside more than
> a few levels of security fencing and such), it`s still useful and
> consumes a lot less resources than ssh -X.
SSH is the ?security fencing?, and consumes almost no resources on
modern hardware (meaning last 20 years or so).
>> Lawrence is right that your clients die if the network goes down
>> (e.g. if the client endpoint sleeps, which is the usual reason my remote
>> X clients fail).
>
> The first part about clients dying if the network connection goes
> down is so obviously trivial that it doesn`t deserve comment. I
> think that gimmick might be called a red herring.
>
> Where Lawrence is wrong is that X does not require ssh -X, VNC,
> RDP, or anything similar to do X displaying across a network.
> That is what is normally meant by X`s network transparency.
>
>> Whether that?s the definition of ?network transaprent? I?ll not take a
>> view on. But it?s certainly inconvenient.
>
> Not sure what you mean is inconvenient.
It was literally in the previous paragraph:
| Lawrence is right that your clients die if the network goes down
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| (e.g. if the client endpoint sleeps, which is the usual reason my remote
| X clients fail).
|
| Whether that?s the definition of ?network transaprent? I?ll not take a
| view on. But it?s certainly inconvenient.
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